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Lci from Brewskival

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

14th August 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Hazy orange gold beer, decent pale cream colour head. Airy palate, smooth, decent fine carbonation emerging late on. Airy creamy malts. Soft pine. Soft skunk throughout. Citrus hop? Yeah and guess what? It's soft! Finishes airy with a mild hop spice nip. A very mellifluous dipa.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home, from HOTM online, 27/07/24. Murky orange with a good sized white head. Nose is juicy tropical fruits, papaya, light hop spice, pine resin, grapefruit, hop spice, melon, mango pulp. Taste comprises pine resin, grapefruit, light dank edge, grass, papaya, mandarin, guava. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness allied to a balanced rising boost. Solid DIPA.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Super hazy orange and peach coloured body with a thick three to four centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat for a long time to and leaves a subtle lace on the sides of the glass. Aroma of tangerines, mangoes, oranges, deep resinous hops with a lot of honey, lactose and fructose here with some light alcohol towards the end of the nose. Full-bodied; Rich oaty and wheatie malt flavours show up first with a lot of hops right behind that do give off a lot of bitterness from the alpha acids and also finishes with quite a big amount of tropical and citrusey fruits with a lot of residual sugars here, but the lactose seems to be the biggest factor. Aftertaste shows a good balance of all of the above with a ton of fruitiness here, but the mangoes and papaya notes seem the strongest that also make this seem to contribute to the richness. Overall, a very nice and robust unfiltered IPA that is pretty New England-ish with a lot of fruits and not as much bitterness as I expected, but a bunch of richness from the malts makes this a bit harder to go down, but still, this is a pretty clean IPA. Great to sample very fresh and well worth trying to find if you like the newer school IPA styles with a slightly higher ABV than others. I sampled this sixteen ounce pint-sized can purchased from Knightly Spirits in Orlando (Orange Blossom Trail), Florida on 30-April-2022, canned on 22-February-2022 (yes, 22-2-22!) For US$5,99 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 26-August-2022 a few minutes before heading out to see Coheed & Cambria play at the Anthem in Washington, DC. 

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can

8

Excellent. Dank, juicy. Wonderful. Listening to the Blues game on the radio. My buddy Ryan is calling the second period for the Blues radio network.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Pretty well done. Tons of passion fruit and orange citrus. Hazy yellow pour with good head and lacing. Light hop tang and some booze in finish but very well done. Tap at Rustico.